{"id":1784709,"date":"2022-12-23T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784709"},"modified":"2022-12-23T08:05:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:05:29","slug":"west-point-removing-confederate-symbols-from-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-point-removing-confederate-symbols-from-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"West Point Removing Confederate Symbols From Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwest-point-removing-confederate-symbols-from-campus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784709&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">NEW YORK \u2014 Before turning against the U.S. military to command the Confederate army, Robert E. Lee served as the superintendent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2022\/08\/29\/commission-recommends-stripping-confederate-service-academy-honors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Point<\/a>, the hallowed military academy that produced patriots like Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">But in the coming days, the storied academy will take down a portrait of Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform from its library, where it has been hanging since the 1950s and place it in storage. It will also remove the stone bust of the Civil War\u2019s top southern general at Reconciliation Plaza. And Lee\u2019s quote about honor will be stripped from the academy\u2019s Honor Plaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The moves are part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2022\/10\/06\/austin-approves-plan-to-drop-confederate-references-from-dod-property\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Defense directive<\/a> issued in October ordering the academy to address racial injustice and do away with installations that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/03\/30\/complete-list-of-military-items-named-for-confederacy-is-more-than-750-long\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">That includes a trio of bronze panels, measuring 11 feet tall and 5 feet wide, that depict significant events and figures in U.S. history, including Benjamin Franklin and Clara Barton. But the oversized plaques, dedicated in 1965, not only featured Lee and other supporters of the Confederacy but an image of an armed man in a hood, with \u201cKu Klux Klan\u201d written below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The congressional Naming Commission, which initiated the changes at the academy, noted \u201cthere are clearly ties in the KKK to the Confederacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"InterstitialLink-sc-1hqz4g0-1 dQRUMJ\">\n<h6 class=\"ClampedBox-sc-1pg0sor-0 Heading__H1-i0amlx-0 fMjDgL FUgTU ChannelHeading-sc-1c6we3j-0 OverlineHeading-sc-18ofnig-0 eqaLFg kcgvUP a-heading6 ChannelHeading-sc-1c6we3j-0 OverlineHeading-sc-18ofnig-0 eqaLFg kcgvUP a-heading6\">RELATED<\/h6>\n<article itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Article\" data-story-url=\"\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/08\/09\/renaming-9-confederate-honoring-army-posts-will-cost-21m\/\" data-story-id=\"IMZXPDSVNZASRN5EMJZLA6O2OY\" data-feature-id=\"false\" data-story-index=\"1\" data-promo-type=\"image\" class=\"View__Article-sc-88btjd-0 cXLKHv View__StoryView-sc-88btjd-5 fqvCeA o-storyCard --up-0 --landscape       --story\">\n<div class=\"View__PromoWrapper-sc-88btjd-4 bCPFlB o-storyCard__promo\">\n<div class=\"View__MediaWrapper-sc-88btjd-1 gHoQKt o-storyCard__media o-storyCard__media a-heading6\">\n<figure class=\"LazyMedia-sc-1vxvan1-0 ZVwHY f-lazyMedia f-lazyMedia\"><source media=\"screen and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source media=\"screen and (min-width: 0px)\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CWQGLCKKMVEYXJ2TFPSVRMRIHU.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"0\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">In a message <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westpoint.edu\/news\/press-releases\/west-point-commences-remediation-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on the academy\u2019s website<\/a>, Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland, the academy\u2019s superintendent, said it would begin complying with the commission\u2019s recommendations during the holiday break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cWe will conduct these actions with dignity and respect,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The United States Military Academy, as West Point is officially known, was established in 1809 along the bank of the Hudson River in upstate New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The school has about 4,600 cadets, two-thirds of them white and about 13% Black, according to federal data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">West Point was not the only installation under scrutiny by the congressional commission. It also recommended that eight other installations address symbols of the racist past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, renamed buildings and roads that memorialized Confederate admirals or those who sought to perpetuate Black enslavement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">More than a half-dozen of the commission\u2019s recommendations for West Point involve Lee, who graduated second in his class in 1829 and later served as superintendent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The commission recommended that Lee Barracks, Lee Road, Lee Gate, Lee Housing Area and Lee Area Child Development Center all be renamed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The report said Lee\u2019s armies \u201cwere responsible for the deaths of more United States soldiers than practically any other enemy in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Two other Confederate officers in the commission\u2019s crosshairs were West Point grads P.G.T. Beauregard and William Hardee. The panel called for Beauregard Place and Hardee Place to be renamed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">It was not until the early 1930s when West Point began installing Confederate memorials, the commission noted, saying it did so under pressure from the revisionist \u201cLost Cause\u201d movement that sought to recast the causes of the Civil War and depict those who fought for the Confederacy as deserving of honor for their sacrifices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Before turning against the U.S. military to command the Confederate army, Robert E. Lee served as the superintendent of West Point, the hallowed military academy that produced patriots like Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower. 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